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i,The Monmouth HEkaLD Vol. XII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, Auguit 27, 1920 ; ; No- 51 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation ' f ; : - I III.. H.H.- H III! ! 1 ' 1'' '. Items of Interest At Oregon Normal Mr. Gentle ard Mia Arbuthnot are scheduled for Institute work at Klamath Kalis September 1, 2, and 3. Arrangements are being made by which they will return ty way of Crater 1 ake. Mrs, Gentle and Miss Ivia aru planning to make the trip with them. M Iss Bramlcrif . Registrar, re- tiinied Monday from a vacation which was fpent In Southern Ore gun and at Hayocean. She reports a very enjoyuble time, President and Mrs. Ackerman are spending the week in Portland and Hood Kiver. Inquiries arc being made relative to the new Commercial Course which will be offered this fall and for the information of such it may be stated that no one will be allow ed to take the Commercial Course unless he takes at Itastjfour periods per day In the Normal, and t part of the subject will be educational such as Psychology, General Meth ods. fchool Management, etc. The object of this course is to fit stu dent to teach Commercial subjects. The student body had a picnic at Luckiamute last Wednesday even ing. Everyone reports a most en joyable time, Mr. Gllmore Is supervising the work of putting in a new floor in the gymnasium, the old one having become so weak it was found neces sary to replace it entirely. He is alio supervising the erection of playground apuaratus'and tennis court on the training . school grojnds, " J' ' Miss Arbuthnot has just spent the last three weeks in teaching in tne county s-immer school at Ore gon City, and reports a very pleas ant and profitable time. Misa Mcintosh and Miss Brenton riturned last Friday from Portland where thuy havo been spending a part of their vacation time. Mias Levis left Tuesday for Pay ocean where she plans to spend a week before going to Crater Ukc. Resourceful Traveller Necessity is the mother of inven tion, and a bright idea put into pructice the other day helped Mc Daniels, a local stockbuyer out of an unpleasant situation. lie got stalled near Airlie one day recently having run out of gasoline. ' He waited for an hour or more nnd no one psssed and he thought he was lodtred for good and all. After a time a traveling man came along, however. He had Borne surplus gasoline but had no way to get it out of his car. After ransacking the neighborhood, McDaniels finally borrowed a fountain syringe and drained out enough gasoline from the drummer's car to enable him to get home, Homer Wood, Independence post master, has sold his home to Frank Worthington, a real estate man from Corvallis. Attorney B. F, Swope of Inde pendence expects to resume his old sideline as a chicken fancier. Last week he purchased the M. Merwin property on the corner of 6th and E streets In Independence and this week has added to it an. additional acre, vacant lots that lie alongside the newly purchased residence. The Merwin house derives its name from a former Independence post master. . .. v , , ' Last Tuesday "night the pool hall operated by Smi th & Son In Indepen dence was raided by Sheriff ' Orr. Six arrests were made for gambling and the offenders were fined $10 each and costs. Before and After Co-Incident with Uie beginning ' Summer ooi at the Normal line county superintendent noius teachers' examination and annually it la the custom fur a large number of the girls coming to Summer School to take the examination for the practice it give them. As they are just out of high school ami have had no Normal training a considerable number of them fuil each lummer. It would seem as if it would better to hold the exam ination at the close rather.than the beginning of the session. Getting Aon; Nicely The Scotch anti-prohibitionist who wrote to Governor Olcott for facts to use in combatting the diys in the land of Scott and Bums, got an earful by way of reply. "There ia little drinking in Oregon ' said the governor, "business was never better, our people have money, are prosperous and happy, crime has decreased, fewer arrests are made" which might sound like hot air Is sued by some chamber of commerce were it not the absolute truth. Prohibition has been a good thing for Oregon. Rumored, Reported Concocted, Collected E. B. Hamilton has changed the name of his mill in Dallas from the Valley Lumber Company to' the Hamilton Lumber Cpomany, tie change being made because of sim ilarity of name with the. Willam ette Valley Lumber Company. - Some little discussion has been going the i ounda over the advisa bility of changing the name of Dal las in order to avoid conflict with The Dalles. Now the latter town comes forward with the announce ment that its official name is not The Dalles but Dalles City which possibly will offer sufficient change to avoid confusion. The Oregon Voter presents some statistics about highway work Under the head of engineering, the following'.has been expended in Polk county: On the Salem, Dallas li..e $1,934.21; from Amity to Rickreall, $1,536 45; from Rickreall to Mo mouth and Independence, $667.27; from Monmouth south, $1,175.98; on county bridges, $204.76. Henry Voth, retired grocer, has been named as manager of the new packing plant which the co-cpera tive association ia building in Dal las. . Miss Nellie Bramberg of Inde pendence was married in Salem last Friday to Barney L. Howard of Silverton. The groom is a son of E. J. Howard, formerly of Indepen dence and was in the navy during the war. The bride, of course, is a sister of our ownMiss Bramberg registrar at the Normal. According to the Post, Peter Kurre of Independence ia willing to bet 600 hats with 600 people that work on the sawmill in tha t city will begin by October 1st. Here's hoping he is correct The Post also gives space to a re port that the Siletz is to be extend ed including a bridge across the Willamette. Travelers through the Hood River valley report , that nearly half the fruit trees of that val ley were killed or damaged by the freeze of last winter. - A. L. Kuhlander of Independence has bought a house of C. W. Irvine on F. street. " A small son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Abe Becker in Independence last week. Get-Rich-Quick Plan Meets Usual Grief Recently John W, Todd resigned as superintendent of schools of Sa lem and Ibis week Geo. W. Hug of the McMinnville schools accepted the vacant position. Both gentle men are well known in Monmouth. As director of the Apollo club and in his capacity as Salem superinten dent, Mr. Todd has been a freqeunt vihitrand Sunt. Hug also is a fam iliar figure on the campus. While at the university Mr. Hug wa6 prominent as a football player and was considered one of the best in the northwest. While principal of he Eugene high school he demised the plan of punia ling students by making them carry in armfuls of wood which proved successful. As an aftermath of the resigna tion of Supt. Todd comes the pub lished story that he is mnected with an alleged attempt to defraud various citizens of Salem. Todd m8y have been the innocent victim but the allegation is that he served as sponsor to a man named Byron who secured $9,000 from eighteen citizens of Salem on the promise that he would locate them on tim ber claims. $1 ,000 each was to be paid.for the location, $500 down. The Rotary club recently investi gated the matter and exonerated the superintendent. He was to have received $100 for each claim located but never received any money, it la quite imeiy aiso mat the investors deserved to be stung which Is the usual fate of the fol lower of the "get rich quick'' prop osition. But they- did not see it that way and are bringing suit in the circuit Court for a return of their money. ' Byron is now serving time in the state of Washington for using the mails with intent to defraud. Rhodes Scholarship Offered to Student A Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, England, will be award ed to a college man of Oregon on September 25, by the Committee of Selection to meet in Portland on that date. The scholarship carries with it an allowance, of $1500 year for three years and is open to all students between the ages of 19 and $5, who have had at least two years of college training. Ap plication should be made at once to the secretary of the committee, C. H. Gray, Reed College, Portland, Ore. The award is made on the basis of scholarship, character, qualities of leadership, and fondness for and success in athletics. A student may follow any course of study that he wishes when he goes to Oxford. The purpose of the schoarships, two of which are Igiven to each state in the union, is to ' forward the understanding between the United States and Great Britain through the meeting , of represent ative young men of the two nations in the pursuit of knowledg.e Each college and university in the stite selects representatives to go before the committee of selec tion as its candidates. Thus, any student who desires to become a candidate should apply to the head of his college for this first appoint ment. Then he should make ap plication on the customary blank to the secretary of the committee. Then, if possible, he should appear in person before the committee on September 25. - j . Two Oregon men are at present in residence at Oxford as Rhodes Sdnlars: Paul T. Homan of Wil lamette University and Frank Flint of Keed College. ' Stephenson Kaste Casts Eye Over The Situation in Polk Attorney Kaste who represents Dallas and Independence in their highway suit, was a visitor In Mon mout Tuesday afternoon looking up evidence to be used in the argument for a permanent injunction which is to be before Judge McCourt in Portland next Monday-. On the same score J. M. Devers, assistant attorney general was in Dallas re cently on a similar errand, so it is likely that nothing has been over looked in preparing for the fire works. In an intcrveiw in Monmouth, Mr. Kaste expressed the conviction that his side of the case would win the permanent injunction asked for. Conversations with Judge McCourt, he said, and his previous decisions rendered it certain that the decision this time will be as stated. Asked if the commission would appeal, he thought it would and the supreme court might take as long as a year and a half to pass on it. Mr. Kaste, in his mind, has also dvised a scheme to combat futur legislative action) - He says that as the bonds were sold it was for the highway as laid down in the legisla tive act. To use the money for other road purposes would invali date the bonds. As he sprung this in court when the commissioners were present the commissioners were stunned, stupified, seeing how completely they were checkmated, id Mr. Kaste. Now thiy are hanging all their efforts on the little word "to" he asserted. .When asked if all the bonds pro vided had been sold he replied"no". Asked if the unsold bonds could not be modified by legislative act ion,' he took pause a second or two himself. But not long. Mr. Kaste is optimistic about his own prowess. The listener gets the reflected notion that he is a magi cian weaving a web of legal techni calities about the commission that will leava them helpless in its meshes. But'the future will decide wheth er or not he is a prophet. Smith of Reed College will go across this fall. The scholar chosen at the coming meeting will go to England in October, 1921. President B. L. Campbell of the University of Oregon is chairman of the committee of selection. The other members are A. C. Newell member of the Portland School Board and president of the Oregon Civic League, and two former Rhodes Scholars, Professor J. B Harrison of .the University of W and Prof. C.H. Gray of Reed. RAY CHAPMAN KILLED BY PITCHED BALL an nhmmin at the Cleveland ilmlians, was tatatly Injured while t i h nlatn. being struck In the ,.t k ii nitrhed ball. The ac cident happened while plavlng the Tm vni-u Yankees at Polo rniindii and comes as a great shock to the baseball world P'jp. y ST "v tr Taught the Alaskans W. G. Peattie who is to be rural supervisor at the Normal has re cently moved into the house which he purchased of C. E. Force and is preparing for the work of next year. He has the position Mr. Pittman formerly held and for the first half of the year his duties will cake him to different parts of the state. Mr. Beattie comes here from Cottage Grove but previous to that was for seven years con nected with educational work in Alaska. For several years he was superintendent of the schools of Southeastern Alaska. This ia the strip, perhaps hundred miles long that stretches down in front of British Columbia and to a large extent consists of islands. Travel there is for the most part in smal) boats and perils are frequent. The natives of Alaska are perhaps the only 'aboriginals of the United States who have not at one time or anoth er been fed by the government. Of late years the government has been giving them some schooling and some medical attentionjbut this has been the total amount of aid they have thus far required. - Cultivate Hops for The English Market While the hop crop is compara tively light this year, prices are high and growers have for weeks been making preparations for the harvest to the end that none re wasted. The Independence Enter prise had a write up of the Wigrich ranch last week from which we glean the following facts. The ranch consists of 820 acres, with 120 acres of woodland. It has over 400 acres of hops., 12 acres of lo ganberries, 11 acres of orchard, acres of asparagus and the remain der of the farm in grain. The ranch derives its name from ts owners, Wigan, Richardson & Co., an English concern, and all o f its hops are sent direct to England usually by rail to New York. Ma;'' or Lewis Rose is manager. He was an officer in the English army fcr 25 years and the head of the firm Mr. Wigan was an English briga dier general. Major Rose has had experience in English hop yards and at the close of his military ca reer came to America to cultivate hops. The Southern Pacific has a switch ine running down to the hop yardi which are located on the bottoms south of Independence and the Btop is called Wigrich. There are on the grounds two large driers and nine teen kilns for curing hops, tenant houses, barns and many other build ings. The ranch has an attractive man ager's residence and the well kept grounds are decidedly English in their appearance. Work picking the fuggles begins this week. Between six and seven hundred pickers have been engaged and there are in addition about a hundred regulars who will have part in the work. This ranch pays out over $40,000 during the picking season. An attractive camp ground is provided and the pickers com prise a community in themselves. One of the largest dance halls in the county is provided and it is op erated by Buffum & Son of Inde pendence. There is also a store, a butcher shop, and a restaurant on the grounds. To keep order qn the grounds, Deputy Sheriff Hocker will be in constant attendance, at the expense of the Wigrich manage ment. - Work on the Falls City School house will begin in September, The building is to cost $28,00(1 and plans for it were drawn byF.H.. Morrison of Dallas. . nstalls Device to Baffle Burglars Additional protection for funds entrusted with the First National Bank is assured by the installation this week of one of the best burg lar alarm systems on the market. The alarm operates by electricity and is so sensitive that the slight est attempt to break into the bank vault results in clamor that will arouse the neighborhood. The system adopted ia one pat ented by the American Bank Pro tection Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is being installed by their representative, W. E. Hush- , aw. The Minneapolis concern has given this sort of protection to thousands of bank in the United States and Canada and not one of them has been burglarized. The vault, top, bottom and sides, is lined with double plates of steel . The'plates are close together and it would be impossible to work through the two linings without making a connection which would automatically set off the alarm. Top, floor, aides and door of the vault are . connected electrically with two electrical timers, or clock like apparatus through which the protection is secured. The alarm consists of two ten inch gongs on the doors of the vault and a twenty inch gong on the outside of the building, all of 'which ring when danger threatens. . The timer automatically releases the door at opening time in the morning and will cause the alarm to ring if the vault door is not proper ly closed at night. Occasionally, banker Jmv been' known to go away leaving the . vault door un locked and the burglar system is a reminder that this duty must not be overlooked. The apparatus is on the inside of the vault and has an open and closed circuit and every part it double. If one part should prove defective and not in good order the other part,will keep up the work. Not only are the funds of the bank protected, but books, papers documents entrusted by customers are protected by it. An additional feature is a system of push buttons ia the bank, con veniently situated where in case of a daylight hold up the alarm can be rung with but little effort. When the system is in place the bank will be pleased to demonstrate it to patrons and interested citizens. Takes Notes About Goats Editor Gage of the Angora Goat Journal of Portland was a visitor in Monmouth Wednesday on one of his periodic visits to the goat ir.en of the Willamette valley. With his camera he circulates among the herd owners and secures not only pictures but many points of interest to the breeder. He was wearing a suit of clothes made of goat hair and which sold for $25 which h a attaracted interest and secured or ders for more of the same thing from people he who have seen it. Riddell Brothers and J. B. Stump and son are the growers whom he visited in Monmouth and from here he went to inspect the Grant herd near Dallas. Severely Injured George Swearingen of the Anti och district was badly injured in an accident with a colt Saturday'after noon. He went to his spring with a barrel after water, driving the colt and with the barrel on a sled. On the way the barrel tipped off ' and rolling scared the colt. Swear- j ingen got hold of the animal's head , but in the struggle was " krocked down and trampled on, suffering I severe injuries. 1
